Olson v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2013
2 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. United Insurance Co. of America · Langle v. Kurkul · Darling v. Burrone Bros., Inc. · Crawford v. Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company · 88 Wis. 2d 252 - John O. Melby & Co. Bank v. Anderson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Elarnings' is defined as either 'wages, salary, commission, bonus, or otherwise, all words which are commonly understood to apply within an employer-employee relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“compensation paid or payable for personal services, whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus ... or otherwise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the words 'or otherwise include other forms of compensation similar in nature to those enumerated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.